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The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture and craftwork. This publication uses a new system of organizing the pottery ...
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The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture, and craftwork. This publication uses a new system of organizing the pottery by petrography-sorting it by materials and workshop practices-revealing a trade network of cooking pots and other clay vessels and their contents.
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Price: £75.00
Pages: 216
Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press
Imprint: INSTAP Academic Press
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Publication Date: 31 December 2022
ISBN: 9781931534307
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, HISTORY / Ancient / General

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We can undoubtedly say that through the use of modern methodologies, appropriate resources, and a spirit of cooperation, the valiant effort to recover all useful information from the destroyed site of Bramiana has been fully successful. The volume thus stands as an indispensable model for future research that will hopefully soon fill the large gaps that still limit our knowledge of the minor sites of Bronze Age Crete.
Puglisi, Dario, American Journal of Archaeology, January 2025, vol. 129, no. 1

". . . throws new light on the interactions and complex dynamics that characterised several regions of Crete (south coast, Mirabello, east Crete) over a large timespan (EM I-LM IB) through the combination of various analytical methods, such as the investigation of excavation data, petrography, typo-stylistic analysis, and landscape archaeology. Finally, it proves the enormous potential of employing large-scale petrographic analysis, still too often considered as an auxiliary-method; and demonstrates how this approach has provided a great deal of new knowledge from an entirely destroyed small rural site."
Dubois, Roxane, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2023.10.23

  1. Introduction and Methodology
  2. Petrographic Analysis of the Pottery from Bramiana
  3. Coarse Cretan South Coast Fabrics
  4. Fine Cretan South Coast Fabrics 1
  5. Fine Cretan South Coast Fabrics 2: With Pellets
  6. Fine Cretan South Coast Fabrics 3: In-and-Out Bowls
  7. Granitic-Dioritic (Mirabello) Fabrics
  8. Metamorphic Fabrics
  9. Metamorphic Fabric from Palaikastro
  10. Ritual Vessels
  11. Calcite-Tempered Fabrics
  12. Uncommon Fabric Groups
  13. Ground Stone Implements
  14. Vitrified Clay Fragments
  15. Building Materials
  16. Other Finds
  17. Conclusions on the Clay Vessels and Their Fabrics
  18. Trade at Bramiana
  19. Reconstructing the History of Bramiana
  20. Before and After: Reconstructing the Bramiana Landscape through Historical Aerial Imagery
  21. Final Comments

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